MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'diamond'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:15:16 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4911460&cid=t_213536_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F7aevM6o7g8Q%2F By Mark A. CalabriaYou might have heard of Peter Diamond, he recently won the Nobel Prize in Economics and earlier this week withdrew his nomination to the Federal Reserve Board. But maybe you have not heard of Paul Pate. Mr. Pate, former Republican mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa was nominated by President Bush in 2003 to fill a seat on the board of the National Institute of Building Sciences. I remember it well, as I handled that nomination as staff for the Senate Banking Committee. So what exactly do Mr. Diamond and Mr. Pate have in common? They were both nominated for positions they could not legally hold. I’ve written elsewhere about Mr. Diamond’s situation. Mr. Pate was barred from serving on the NIBS board due to an ownership interest he had in an asphalt company. Bush&#8217... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4911460 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:07:13 +0100 4911460 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4902408&cid=t_213536_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FvibE5rjCuMw%2F By Mark A. CalabriaToday Nobel Prize-winning economist Peter Diamond announced he is withdrawing his nomination to the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System.  Professor Diamond, in the pages of New York Times, blames the opposition to his nomination on both partisan politics and what he sees as a misunderstanding of the relationship between unemployment and monetary policy.  Mr. Diamond, however, is the one with a fundamental misunderstanding.  We all know unemployment is an important issue and needs to be addressed.  The question is whether it can be addressed with loose monetary policy.  Mr. Diamond apparently believes it can.  There are many who believe it cannot.  If all our labor market problems could be solved with loose money, then we’d already be at full... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4902408 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:08:29 +0100 4902408 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636446&cid=t_213536_88_f&fid=35612&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheknifeman.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2F30-dsc-day-13.html 13: Guilty PleasureHmmm... there are a few of these.Try this on for size.(There's a bit of banter to get through, but he's talking to Johnny Cash FFS)(Cut to 2:15, if you have to...) (Source: The KnifeMan) The KnifeMan blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636446 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:44:00 +0100 4636446 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167946&cid=t_213536_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FaYZJk6lyp0k%2F By Mark A. CalabriaTuesday the Senate Banking Committee meets for the second time to consider the nomination of Peter Diamond to a seat on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Since Professor Diamond was first nominated, he has been awarded the Nobel prize in economics. Putting aside his academic qualifications, and his misguided views on Social Security, Professor Diamond is not qualified to be a Fed governor for one very simple reason: he is from a Federal Reserve district that already has representation on the Fed.  Paragraph 10-1 of the Federal Reserve Act requires that: In selecting the members of the Board, not more than one of whom shall be selected from any one Federal Reserve district, the President shall have due regard to a fair representation of the financial, agri... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167946 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:03:14 +0100 4167946 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3666020&cid=t_213536_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F06%2F16%2Fif-you-build-it-he-will-come-on-pursuing-our-dreams%2F “If you build it, he will come” is the famous line in the classic 1989 flick, “Field of Dreams.” When Iowa corn farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) starts hearing voices to build a baseball diamond in his fields — sacrificing all the income from his crop — everyone thinks he’s gone mad. He has. Sort of. But then he sees Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) on the field, and the details begin to fall into place. It’s funny how you pick up different things in a movie depending on where you are in life. The movie came out just as I was graduating from high school and figuring out how to live my life sober. My vision was very black and white then. It has to be in the early days of sobriety, or else you’ll end up drunk. So I remember the &#8220... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3666020 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:29:10 +0100 3666020 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3581581&cid=t_213536_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fdiy-wildlife-pest-control-does-killing-squirrels-count%2F A few weeks ago, I tried to rescue a squirrel. He was trembling, prostrate, sick, and unable to crawl to a handful of carefully placed Diamond premium shelled walnuts. Poor guy. After I called the Humane Society, a specialist armed with gloves and a crate arrived within 30 minutes. Thirty minutes! I only hope 911 works as expeditiously. Soon my squirrel was whisked off to Second Chances, a nearby animal rehab center. Since nothing happens in the wilds of suburbia – and I’m always interested in painting myself in a positive light – I shared my Dr. Doolittle delusions of grandeur far and wide. One neighbor’s suspicious response: “Well, I hope that doesn’t have anything to do with us,” she said, going on to explain how her husband had laid out some poison for the critters ne... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3581581 Wed, 19 May 2010 16:10:18 +0100 3581581 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3339684&cid=t_213536_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F06%2Flisa-diamond-associate-professor-of-psychology-and-gender-studies-university-of-utah-big-think%2F From Big Think: Lisa Diamond’s research focuses on two distinct but related areas — the nature and development of affectional bonds and the nature and development of same-sex sexuality. The common thread uniting these lines of research is her interest in the psychological and biobehavioral processes underlying intimate relationships and their influence on emotional experience and functioning over the life course. If you’re not familiar with Dr. Diamond’s work, we highly recommend the following video interview, which (though the audio and video are out of sync) is well worth listening to. * * * For a sample of related Situationist posts, see “Schema Theory and Lesbian and Gay Identity – Abstract,” “Brenda Cossman on the Situation of Women in ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3339684 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:01:00 +0100 3339684 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3026803&cid=t_213536_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FgvV--UhpunI%2F What a better opening for our January SharpBrains Summit than to have Marian C. Diamond, one of the pioneers of neuroplasticity research since the 1960s, introduce us to the human brain, its anatomy and function, and implications from neuroplasticity for brain health and performance at any age. Marian C. Diamond, Ph.D., is Professor of Neuroscience and Anatomy at UC-Berkeley  and one of the world’s foremost researchers on neuroplasticity and enrichment since the 1960s . She is author of more than 100 scientific articles and three books, including Enriching Heredity (Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 1988) and The Magic Trees of the Mind (Plume, 1999). In particular, she is interested in studying the effects of the external environment, aging, and immune responses on the cerebral neocor... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3026803 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:59:33 +0100 3026803 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2258276&cid=t_213536_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Fforward-forever-forward The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act doubles the size of the healthcare IT industry. The details of the work ahead, how we'll organize to accomplish the work and who will do the work are still being developed. In the meantime, I'm getting involved in every discussion, debate, and brainstorming opportunity that I can to move the work forward. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2258276 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:13:45 +0100 2258276 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2236459&cid=t_213536_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Ffive-recommendations-onc-head-who-understands-health-it-innovation Now that the legislative language of the HITECH Act -- the $20 billion health IT allocation within the economic stimulus package -- has been set, it's time to identify a National Coordinator (NC) for Health IT who can capably lead that office. As many now realize, the language of the Bill can be ambiguous, requiring wise regulatory interpretation and execution to ensure that the money is spent well and that desired outcomes are achieved. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2236459 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:04:33 +0100 2236459 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1991791&cid=t_213536_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F27%2Fthe-situation-of-inequality-guns-germs-and-steel%2F From Youtube: Jared Diamond’s journey of discovery began on the island of Papua New Guinea. There, in 1974, a local named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” Diamond realized that Yali’s question penetrated the heart of a great mystery of human history — the roots of global inequality. Why were Europeans the ones with all the cargo? Why had they taken over so much of the world, instead of the native people of New Guinea? How did Europeans end up with what Diamond terms the agents of conquest: guns, germs and steel? It was these agents of conquest that allowed 168 Spanish conquistadors to defeat an Imperial Inca army of 80,000 in 1532, and s... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1991791 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:30:33 +0100 1991791 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1826755&cid=t_213536_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F400952839%2F Great article in the New York Times titled Training Young Brains to Behave. A couple of quotes: - "But just as biology shapes behavior, so behavior can accelerate biology. And a small group of educational and cognitive scientists now say that mental exercises of a certain kind can teach children to become more self-possessed at earlier ages, reducing stress levels at home and improving their experience in school. Researchers can test this ability, which they call executive function, and they say it is more strongly associated with school success than I.Q." - “We know that the prefrontal cortex is not fully developed until the 20s, and some people will ask, ‘Why are you trying to improve prefrontal abilities when the biological substrate is not there yet?’ ” said Adele Di... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1826755 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:45:26 +0100 1826755 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1009754&cid=t_213536_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F180421361%2F Quotes from a great article, Professor, 81, proves brain stays young: - In 1960, Diamond became the first female faculty member in Cal's science department, achieving full professorship in 1974. She still teaches anatomy with her 81st birthday two weeks away. - Diamond, a professor of anatomy at UC Berkeley, determined that the brain can stay young through stimulation, which can be achieved through her five-point plan: diet, exercise, challenge, newness and tender loving care. - Using her plan, how is she challenged? - "Every student who sits in that chair," she said, pointing across the desk in her fifth-floor office in the Life Sciences Building on campus. "They come in here asking questions, and you better have the answers." - What newness, then, is in her life? - &q... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1009754 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:12:42 +0100 1009754 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1002853&cid=t_213536_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F179768715%2Fworker_81_claims_brains_need_n.html What holds the interest and vitality of an 81 year old professor who continues teaching college classes and insists that brains need not age?  Even long after the body grows old?Dr Marian Diamond professor of anatomy … and one of the world's foremost neuroanatomists …  changed science by showing how human brains don’t have to grow old. Do you believe that? At 81, and still a professor of anatomy at UC Berkeley, Dr. Diamond’s determined that the brain can stay young through stimulation. How so?  Diamond’s five phase … no nonsense approaches to brain youthfulness: 1. Eat well – to optimize nerve cells and their branches2. Exercise – to increase blood and oxygen flow for healthier brainpower.3. Think new - to challenge your... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1002853 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:59:37 +0100 1002853 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=823021&cid=t_213536_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fjr-dunn-true-top-ten-engagement-ring.html "Fruit Salad" Diamond RingOriginally uploaded by diamond_girl_77. I dropped by Payperpost this morning and to my delight found something that promised some comic relief.I don't care WHERE I find things like this, the insights into human nature they represent are useful - and tragicomic. Of all the things in the universe you would think people would be careful not to screw up, it would have to be buying a diamond engagement ring. Three months salary is a severe chunk of change for most of us - even if we card it.But there's some amazingly stupid people out there! Every business person has a list just like this...Via J.R.Dunn's Jewelry Blog Is your engagement headed for the rocks? If you are guilty of one of the following there is a chance your engagement might be doomed. We have compiled th... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=823021 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 823021